N.B.C. Moves to Reduce 'Clutter' on the TV Screen
Date: 13 May 1971
By GEORGE GENT
George GENT
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Peter Marshall (squash player) Birthday, Date of Birth
Peter Marshall (born 12 May 1971) is a former professional squash player from England. He is notable for his unique double-handed playing style.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, May 12, 1971
- Place of Birth
- Nottingham
- Age
- 54
- Star Sign
- ♉
The May 12, 1971 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 131 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 54 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, May 12, 2025, 126 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in 238 days. You have lived for 19,850 days, or about 476,406 hours, or about 28,584,404 minutes, or about 1,715,064,240 seconds.
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12th of May 1971 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 12, 1971
PRESIDENT VOWS TO LEAD A DRIVE AGAINST CANCER; Proposes Agency Directly Responsible to Him and Pledges Needed Funds Nixon Vows to Lead Drive on Cancer
Date: 12 May 1971
By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr.Special to The New York Times
Pres Nixon pledges to personally lead independently budgeted natl program to conquer cancer, news conf; expresses hope that Pres interest and guidance will hasten discovery of cure and pledges that necessary funds will be provided; Adm proposal, introduced by Sen Dominick, calls for establishment of expanded cancer research program within Natl Health Insts, tantamount to establishment of virtually ind cancer agency; cancer inst dir will become deputy dir of new program and cancer cure advisory com will be established absorbing Natl Cancer Advisory Council; com will consist of other appointees including Pres chief science adviser; similar bill was introduced earlier in yr by Sen Kennedy; Nixon says he cannot give timetable for conquest of cancer but cites breakthroughs in recent yrs; Natl Health Insts dir Dr Marston cites efforts in genetics and virus research linked to cancer; HEW Dept Sec Richardson says Adm's plan will absorb Natl Cancer Inst into cancer cure program within Natl Health Insts; urges close cooperation between cancer program and Natl Health Insts as 'collaborators'; some scientists have expressed concern over establishment of natl cancer authority because it would lead to dismemberment of Natl Health Insts; Nixon has already asked Cons to appropriate additional $100-million in addition to Natl Cancer Insts $232-million budget; HR, scheduled to vote on $100-million appropriation, fails to complete action on bill; leadership of anticancer effort now seen passing from Adm to Cong; several other proposals in addition to Kennedy's have been introduced in Cong and Sen (Kennedy) subcom will refrain from acting on Kennedy's bill to give Adm chance to testify on behalf of its own bill
Army Men in Pakistan See Heresy In Western-Style Education There
Date: 13 May 1971
By MALCOLM W. BROWNESpecial to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNESpecial
Browne dispatch
Elizabeth Journal Resumes Publication as Strike Ends
Date: 12 May 1971
Elizabeth Journal resumes as strike ends with tentative pact
Kate Webb Tells of Her 3-Week Captivity
Date: 13 May 1971
article by Webb describing her experiences with Vietnamese captors; illus
SINGAPORE LEADER DUELS WITH PRESS; Lee Says Paper Got Funds From Chinese Agents
Date: 12 May 1971
Special to The New York Times
Prime Min Lee Kuan Yew charges Communist Chinese agents in Hong Kong gave unidentified Singapore newspaper owner almost $1.35-million to influence that newspaper, s made pub by Culture Min; says paper continues anti-Communist ed policy so far; also scores Eng-language press; charges Singapore Herald is anti-Govt; queries sources of its financing, much of which comes from Hong Kong publisher S As Wian, who is Internatl Press Inst exec; Herald, in planned rebuttal, denies anti-Govt stand, says Lee knows financing, cites pressure brought on Herald by Govt; arrest last wk of 4 execs of Chinese-language paper Nanyang Sing Pao on charges they incite Chinese nationalism and are pro-Communist noted
Text of Nixon Statement on Plan to Defeat Cancer
Date: 12 May 1971
Special to The New York Times
McCloskey Says Administration Employs Deception on the War
Date: 13 May 1971
By E. W. KENWORTHY
E. KENWORTHY
Repr McCloskey accuses Adm of lying to Amer people and concealing information from them, breakfast meeting with newsmen; cites examples, which mostly deal with Vietnam war
Report on Lead in Atmosphere Of Los Angeles Held Up a Year
Date: 13 May 1971
By GLADWIN HILL
Gladwin HILL
Environmental Protection Agency repr acknowledges that data of environmental lead studies in Los Angeles and 6 other cities have been withheld from pub dissemination for more than yr; delay has been attributed to need to study and analyze findings, however, environmental group charges data has been suppressed because of pressures from oil and lead industries; agency repr says data will be pub this mo
TV Program on Pentagon Scored at House Inquiry
Date: 13 May 1971
By RICHARD HALLORANSpecial to The New York Times
Asst Sec Henkin criticizes content and editing of CBS program but defends network's right to produce show, HR subcom; subcom chmn Staggers repts USMC Col J MacNeil has sued CBS News and Washington Post Co, which owns CBS station in Washington, for alleged distortion of his remarks; Henkin accuses CBS of doctoring and misrepresnting many of his remarks